[R] Overplotting: plot() invocation looks ugly ... suggestions?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

And if lattice is ok then try this:

library(lattice)
xyplot(Consumption ~ Quarter, group = Year, data, type = "o")

On 7/24/06, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Try:
>
> matplot(levels(data$Quarter), matrix(data$Consumption, 4), type = "o")
>
>
> On 7/24/06, John McHenry <john_d_mchenry at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi WizaRds,
> >
> > I'd like to overplot UK fuel consumption per quarter over the course of five years.
> > Sounds simple enough?
> >
> > Unless I'm missing something, the following seems very involved for what I'm trying to do. Any suggestions on simplifications?
> >
> > The way I did it is awkward mainly because of the first call to plot ... but isn't this necessary, especially to set limits for the plot?
> >
> > The second call to plot(), in conjunction with by(), seems to be natural enough, and, IMHO, seems to be readable and succinct.
> >
> >    data<- read.table(textConnection("Year    Quarter        Consumption
> >    1965    1        874
> >    1965    2        679
> >    1965    3        616
> >    1965    4        816
> >
> >    1966    1        866
> >    1966    2        700
> >    1966    3        603
> >    1966    4        814
> >
> >    1967    1        843
> >    1967    2        719
> >    1967    3        594
> >    1967    4        819
> >
> >    1968    1        906
> >    1968    2        703
> >    1968    3        634
> >    1968    4        844
> >
> >    1969    1        952
> >    1969    2        745
> >    1969    3        635
> >    1969    4        871"), header=TRUE)
> >    data$Quarter<- as.factor(data$Quarter)
> >    #
> >    # what follows is only marginally less involved than using a for loop
> >    # (the culprit is, in part, the need to make the first, type="n", call to plot()):
> >    windows(width=12,height=6)
> >    with(data, plot(levels(Quarter), Consumption[Year==Year[1]], ylim=c(min(Consumption), max(Consumption)), type="n"))
> >    with(data, by(Consumption, Year, function(x) lines(levels(Quarter), x, type="o")))
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jack.
> >
> >
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